This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences. It starts with the "strange" physics of matter, including particle physics, atomic physics and quantum mechanics, cosmology, relativity and their consequences (Chapter I), and it continues by describing the properties of material systems that... more...

RNA viruses, by virtue of their high mutation rates and large population sizes, from complex mutant distributions termed viral quasispecies. Studies collected here address connections between theoretical quasispecies and real virus quasispecies, and the biological implications of the quasispecies structure of RNA viruses and other simple replicons. more...